In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan was gaining strength across the Midwest. But on November 1, the people of Niles, Ohio, organized a massive protest against the Klan. As the YSU history program observes the 100th anniversary of this protest, it is pleased to welcome Dr. Linda Gordon for a special lecture on the history of the rise and fall of the KKK.
Dr. Gordon’s lecture, “When the Ku Klux Klan was a Mass Movement” will be held Nov. 1 at 6:00 pm, at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor. It is free and open to the public.
For more information on the Niles protest, see p. 46 of Echoes.
Dr. Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University and two-time recipient of the esteemed Bancroft Prize in History. She is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and of multiple books including The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (2017).